Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Total \To"tal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Totaled}or {Totalled}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Totaling} or {Totalling}.]
   To bring to a total; to add; also, to reach as a total; to
   amount to. [Colloq.]

Total \To"tal\, a. [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole.
   Cf. {Factotum}, {Surtout}, {Teetotum}.]
   Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a
   total departure from the evidence; a total loss. `` Total
   darkness.'' ``To undergo myself the total crime.'' --Milton.

   {Total abstinence}. See {Abstinence}, n., 1.

   {Total depravity}. (Theol.) See {Original sin}, under
      {Original}.

   Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See {Whole}.

Total \To"tal\, n.
   The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make
   the grand total of five millions.

Source : WordNet®

total
     adj 1: constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an
            entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full
            attention"; "a total failure" [syn: {entire}, {full}]
     2: including everything; "the overall cost"; "the total amount
        owed" [syn: {overall}]
     3: without conditions or limitations; "a total ban" [syn: {absolute},
         {unconditioned}]
     4: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a
        full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: {full}]
     [also: {totalling}, {totalled}]

total
     n 1: the whole amount [syn: {sum}, {totality}, {aggregate}]
     2: a quantity obtained by addition [syn: {sum}, {amount}]
     [also: {totalling}, {totalled}]

total
     v 1: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
          $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: {number}, {add
          up}, {come}, {amount}]
     2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
        those of the neighboring town" [syn: {tot}, {tot up}, {sum},
         {sum up}, {summate}, {tote up}, {add}, {add together}, {tally},
         {add up}]
     [also: {totalling}, {totalled}]